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Summary: ANOTHER SUPER BOOK!
Review: This guy really knows his stuff.What a great book this is but it is no surprise because he has written nothing but great books.He has developed into one of the finest authors in the field of self-improvement and thinking one's way to creating a great life.Not for the touchy-feely type.
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Summary: This book can be your companion for a better life
Review: Readers who have read Steve Chandler's other self-help books, or who have heard his audio-books, will not need to bother reading this review - for they've already clicked on the shopping cart and are checking out with their own copy of 17 Lies That are Holding You Back... Steve's books are so good that once you've experienced one you'll want the whole set. With 17 Lies..., as with his other works, Steve Chandler moves beyond the philosphy of his contemporaries in the field of self-help and motivation. What distinguishes Chandler's writing is the insistance of personal responsibility for one's success and happiness. Unlike other authors who encourage us to apply relationship formulas or positive thinking mantras onto our lives, Chandler convinces us to get INTO our lives, examine them for what they truly are, and then take action to CHANGE our lives. Do you have a plan for your life? A plan to change the way you think? A plan to challange your habit of deceiving yourself? If you are ready to begin today, then read or listen to 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back & The Truth That Will Set You Free. If on the other hand you believe that change is not possible because "That's just the way I am" then go ahead and stay that way - you're a believer in lie #15. Or perhaps you can't do anything to create a happier life because "I'm too old for that" - fine, your a believer in lie #3. But if you are ready to change. If you are ready to make your life happier and ready to share that happiness with others - read Chandler's new book. Your life will change for the better as each of your lies is vanquished. YOU - CAN - DO - IT! Just read the book, just vanquish your lies, just choose to be alive.
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Summary: Chandler has done it again.
Review: I loved Steve Chandlers "reinventing yourself". He has howevr, outdone himself in "17 lies that are holding you back". I appreciate the clarity with which he takes seemingly unrelated lies we commit in our lives and shows a common theme behind this self deception. I would say that this book helped me, but that would not be in keeping with the spirit of the book. This book, helped me help myself. I received the book a few days ago, and have read it three times. Thank you Steve Chandler for writing this book. I will buy more copies, and give them to my friends. If you read no other book in the year 200, it MUST be this book.
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Summary: Invent A Future In The Face Of Total Uncertainty
Review: Self motivation is the base of achievement, and the prize for reading and comprehending this fresh and powerful book. Mediocrity and underachievement is widely embraced, and yet personally worthless. Instigated by fears and defended with lies to ourselves, underachievement is a way of life, and a waste of life. In 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back & The Truth That Will Set You Free, Steve Chandler exposes these huge life numbing lies to the self. As he writes, "to see them is to see them disappear." Dreams and magnificent possibilities are significantly boosted in being brought to the active front of your life, with the many insights this book has for you. I am thrilled to have bought and read this book. Certainly the value of the book is far greater than the cost of it.
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Summary: Another Steve Chandler WINNER!
Review: This book explodes with "Truth!" A must for your library.
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Summary: And these truths will set you free!
Review: Over the course of our lives we are told that certain things are certain ways and nothing we do can change that. Over our lifetime we come to accept these things are truths, when in reality they are lies and we are really in control of our own destiny. Steve Chandler has taken a huge step in breaking down the life long lies that we are told and showing you that you have the power to make your life turn out the way you want. Chandler's motivating and positive approach is refreshing and a great boost. The book give the low esteemed, self-doubters, under confidant the power to take control and make a difference in their lives. Chandler is the author of 100 ways to Motivate Yourself and coupled with this book you have an unbeatable combination for success. If you trying to overcome the laziness and want to invigorate yourself, that you might want to grab hold of this book. Chandler's book no leaves you with no excuse for not getting your life on the right track. The book is easy to read and blends humor with reality in a very pleasant manner.
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Summary: WE ARE LIVING IN A RIVER OF FEAR
Review: from the Introduction to "17 Lies": LIVING IN A RIVER OF FEAR "The river Jordan/ is chilly and cold/ it chills the body/ but not the soul."--American folk song. This is a book about lies. Not the everyday white lies we use to spare someone's feelings (usually our own). Nor is it about huge public lies like "I would never do anything to harm Nicole." These are lies that do more damage than those do. These are lies to the soul. These are lies we send down inside ourselves to convince us that we don't have any power. Every lie we tell ourselves is based on fear of the unknown. Fear of the fresh and beautiful. Fear of that daring plunge into unknown beauty. Fear of uncertainty, fear of being courageous, evolving and creative. Fear of risking being a total fool. Fear of taking a stand for greatness. Those fears inspire the lies. The lies give us an easier, softer way to go every time. They remove us from the possibility of daring action and huge commitments. From inventing a future in the face of total uncertainty. But the truth is we don't have to accept anything this cold rolling down inside of us. We don't have to live in a river of fear. The truth is, we are powerful. We can fight back. We can take our lives into our own hands. PEOPLE LIE ABOUT THEIR LIMITS Power grows in us the moment a future dream transforms into present day action. That's when magic beyond comprehension expands inside the human energy system. That's what happened when Roger Bannister became the first human to run the four minute mile. It had become more than just a goal to him. So his mind expanded to let that new power in. Prior to Bannister, the running world had feared that the human body simply wasn't constructed to run the mile faster than four minutes. It was feared that the human body would break down at that speed. That bad things would happen. But since that time, many people have re-routed the river of fear inside them and accomplished even bigger things. Even in the narrow category of the foot race! There are many people now running who are over 60 years old who are bettering earlier Olympic gold medal times (set by runners in their twenties) for the mile. This is because humans are learning to expand their minds, while the body willingly follows. And while many will say that these faster running times are just because of better vitamins, training and nutrition, that doesn't really explain it. Because you would have to ask why the same improvement hasn't happened with race horses. Over the same period of time, horses, too, have had better training and better nutrition. They've even had controlled breeding. Yet no such astounding improvements in the times of race horses has occurred. Human athletic accomplishments keep soaring beyond what we once believed possible. Human scientific accomplishments keep soaring as well. Human technological accomplishments are keeping pace. Perhaps the reason is simple: Human beings are finding greater and greater power within their minds. Humans are learning to stop lying about their limits. Soon a sense of purpose replaces the lies inside the human motivational system. We can replace a river of lies with a river of dreams. It's the same imagination that creates both, so why not take the dreams? These are the 17 lies that stand in the way of those dreams. And to see them is to see them disappear.
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Summary: WE ARE LYING TO THE SOUL
Review: 4-TIME EMMY-AWARD WINNING PBS WRITER FRED KNIPE reviews "17 LIES": Those who have not read Steve Chandler's other books will find his newest an ideal place to start. "17 Lies" is both fundamental and fresh. What makes it fresh is his forthright way of pushing aside "baggage", psychotherapy's familiar burden, and getting at something eminently practical and swift. To do this has meant naming some behavior for what it truly is. Not "mistakes." Nor even "fooling oneself", a cute way of pulling the punch. Chandler says there are lies we tell ourselves. And this is good news. It is not even bitter medicine, because the lies imply a truth we are avoiding, and this truth that we don't want to know is how capable we are. Beneath that truth is another more succulent one: how much happiness is within our grasp. The seventeen lies have been selected. They are not the only ones. But they are representative. And these seventeen, once absorbed (in a series of "aha!s"), give us the whole pattern, a diagram for how this kind of lie works and how to identify its seductive warble. One of the book's charms is the impetus it creates for revealing other lies, lies of our own creation, unknown not only to ourselves but to those dearest to us. A lie has a purpose. We don't indulge ourselves in this way without a reason. Our interest in avoiding the truth is powerful but Chandler is no scold. He leads us into this daunting honesty gently, with personal anecdotes and surprising illustrations of the well-intentioned deceit built into our songs and art. At the heart of this book is a truth we eventually must take seriously and that is our duality. We all acknowledge that we have deceived ourselves at one time or another. But to do so we would have had to be two, both the deceiver and the deceived. Are we two people? Yes, says Steve Chandler, we are, in this one sense: we have a soul. A spirit that thirsts for our well-being. It is to this side of us we have lied, to still its insistent claim for our own beauty." ----PBS Writer Fred Knipe
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Summary: Nothing motivational in this book.. Don't waste $
Review: I read other books of steve chandler 100 ways to motivate yourself and was lot better than this one. If you already that one, don't waste money on this. You can read a whole chapter but I bet you won't know what he is talking about. Examples he gives in this book are not solid enough to convince what he is saying. I expected lot from this book but totally disappointed.
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Summary: Good or not? Depends on what you expect
Review: If you expect this book as the sequel to the author's highly acclaimed "100 ways to motivate yourself" (I rated that a five star), you would very likely be disappointed.
To give you an idea of what the book's about and to save your time on checking the content page available here on Amazon, below please find the 17 lies/chapters for your quick reference:-
L1. It's who you know
L2. There's something wrong with me
L3. I'm too old for that
L4. I cant because I'm afraid
L5. I'd love to do that, but I dont have the time
L6. There's nothing I can do
L7. I worry because I care
L8. I'm sadder now but wiser
L9. The longer I have a habit, the harder it is to break
L10. People really upset me
L11. Winning the lottery would solve everything
L12. They're too beautiful for this world
L13. You hurt my self esteem
L14. It's a shame we didnt capture that on video
L15. That's just the way I am
L16. What (alcohol and drugs) doesnt kill me make me stronger
L17. I am helpless
If those lies happen to be your problems, you may find it helpful, though I deem the quoted examples in each chapter few and timid, which is the very reason I dont like this book much. Also, there are just too many blank pages.
In short, much better alternatives are available in a bookstore, like the author's own "100 ways to motivate yourself".
p.s. No matter what, I do like the following quotes in the book.
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it. People come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just. By doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled, and by doing brave acts we become brave.
- Artistole pg 25
The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek en theos, which means "the God within." If that's what enthusiasm means, you can figure out what the opposite of enthusiasm is. pg 98
The real truth is that the wiser you are, the happier you get. Because wisdom does that. If one is becoming sadder, it's not because one is becoming wiser, it is because one is quitting. One is giving up. She left me for another, so i quit. pg 100
There are many ways to victimize people. One way is to convince them that they are victims.
- Karen Huang pg 135
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